Rishi Sunak has joined calls to strip former Post Office chief Paula Vennells of her CBE, saying he would “strongly support” the Honours Forfeiture Committee if it decided to look at revoking her award.
The Prime Minister’s spokesperson said he “shares the public’s strength of feeling” on this issue.
More than 700 sub-postmasters were handed criminal convictions between 1999 and 2015 after faulty software wrongly suggested the employees were stealing money.
More than one million people have signed a petition calling for Vennells to be stripped of her CBE, an award she was given for services to the Post Office.
Vennells oversaw the Post Office as the Horizon scandal unfolded and repeatedly denied problems with the system.
Yesterday, Sunak confirmed that Justice Secretary Alex Chalk is considering plans to exonerate all 700 subpostmasters convicted in the scandal.
Just 93 people have so far been pardoned for the convictions, which were handed out between 1999 and 2015.
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